Publication Database

Uncovering the Social Value of Sport

01-Feb-16

Sport and Recreation Alliance

The report, launched by the Sports and Recreation Alliance features essays that discuss the power of sport and recreation to achieve social good, how to run sporting initiatives that aim to achieve this and how best to promote them.

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What children are telling ChildLine about the services they receive following sexual abuse

01-Feb-16

NSPCC

In one third of counselling sessions where sexual abuse was the main concern, children also talked about mental health issues. Symptoms were often triggered by the trauma of the abuse they had experienced.�Young people were unsure of where to report online sexual abuse and were concerned about issues of confidentiality.More children told the NSPCC they are reporting their experience to the police. Counselling sessions where children talked about this increased by over 50% compared to 2013-14.

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That awkward age

18-Dec-15

NPC

This report looks at new data on children�s well-being acquired through the application of NPC�s Well-being Measure. It confirms trends we have identified in the past: that young people�s well-being falls as they grow older, and that girls� well-being falls more sharply than boys�.

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Troubled Teens

01-Nov-15

The Children's Society

The Children's Society reported on the often difficult relationship between parenting support and parenting neglect noting that while it was a difficult balancing act, many (15%) teenagers experienced parental neglect at a critical stage in their lives and schooling.

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Key Data on Adolescence 2015

01-Oct-15

Association for Young People's Health

The latest trends in young people�s health and lifestyle have been published by the Association for Young People�s Health this month, in�Key Data on Adolescence 2015.�Overall, KDA shows that many of the trends in health behaviours and health outcomes for young people are positive.� Proportions drinking, numbers smoking, rates of teenage pregnancy � these are all at the lowest rates for decades.�But new forms of substance misuse, including legal highs, have emerged since 1997, posing an (as yet) unknown threat, and there is a new trend for experimentation with e-cigarettes to be reported by something between 8-20% of secondary school children.�

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Young People's Health Partnership Briefing: Substance Misuse

01-Jul-15

Young People's Health Partnership

Addaction is a proud member of the Young People�s Health Partnership, a consortium of organisations working with the Department of Health, Public Health England and NHS England. Part of our role is to raise the profile of the health agenda across the voluntary youth sector. To this end Addaction has produced this briefing about young people�s substance misuse and how local services and commissioners can respond to this issue.

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Community engagement in health

01-Mar-15

Race Equality Foundation

It is now an expectation that statutory organisations engage with the public and stakeholders in strategic decision-making. In the new health service �putting patients first�, enabling shared� decision-making and making systems more accountable by empowering patients are some ways to ensure �engagement� is integral to the system (Department of Health, 2010). This briefing will look at different aspects of community engagement in health services, and specifically, at the engagement of young people.

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Health and wellbeing: a guide to community-centred approaches

11-Feb-15

Public Health England

This guide from Public Health England outlines a �family of approaches� for evidence-based community-centred approaches to health and wellbeing. The community-centred approaches seek to mobilise the assets within communities, promote equity and increase people�s control over their health and lives.

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Improving young people's health and wellbeing: a framework for public health

29-Jan-15

Public Health England

The Framework has been developed as a resource to enable local areas in the delivery of their public health role for young people. It poses questions for councillors, health and wellbeing boards, commissioners, providers and education and learning settings to help them support young people to be healthy and to improve outcomes for young people

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Coping with cancer - supporting young people's resilience

01-Dec-14

CLIC Sargent

Report publishing the findings from CLIC Sargent's research into the information needs of young people with cancer.

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